RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has joined a nascent nationwide effort to improve outcomes for more prisoners who return to society through an approach focused on education, health care and housing.
More than 18,000 people are released annually from the dozens of North Carolina adult correctional facilities, the order says, facing obstacles to a fresh start from their criminal record.
The council said that North Carolina is the third state to officially join Reentry 2030, after Missouri and Alabama.
And Greg Singleton, a continuing-education dean at Central Carolina Community College in Sanford, is himself an ex-offender, having served four years in prison in the 1990s.
“What if God didn’t give second chances — where would any of us be?” Singleton asked.
Persons:
Roy Cooper, ” Cooper, “, Todd Ishee, Cooper, Joe Gibbs, Greg Singleton, didn’t, ” Singleton, ”
Organizations:
—, Gov, Council of State Governments, Transportation Department, of Health, Human Services, Republican, Assembly, NASCAR, Super Bowl, Life, Central Carolina Community College
Locations:
RALEIGH, N.C, — North Carolina, North Carolina, Missouri, Alabama, Carolina, Sanford